On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 04:56:09PM -0700, Mitchell Ferschweiler wrote:
> I asked the Macintosh list about my problem installing with the newest
> bf, and the respone i recived is attached below. My problem again is
> with:
>
> Macintosh SE/30 32meg RAM
> BF 3.0.22 from macinstall.tar.gz off of ftp.debian.org
> tried both kernel from archive and mac sourceforge site
> boot parameters: "root=/dev/ram"
>
> Mitchell
>
can you use a non-monochrome video mode on your mac?
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>
> From: Michael Schmitz <schmitz@opal.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de>
> To: linux-mac68k@mac.linux-m68k.org
> Subject: Re: Mac SE/30 install problem
> Date: 22 Apr 2002 10:17:11 +0200
>
> On 18 Apr 2002, Mitchell Ferschweiler wrote:
>
> > I tried the newest version of the bf on ftp.debian.org on a Macintosh
> > SE/30. After the line about starting busybox, it went into an infinite
> > loop displaying "bogl: don't know screen screen type 0".
>
> Known issue; please report this to cts@debian.org. I suspect it hits
> machines with monochrome display (seen the same on my TT in an earlier bf
> version).
>
> Michael
debian-boot: Is there a known issue with bogl on monochrome displays? If so
it has a negative impact on some ataris and macs.
If bogl is fine, maybe its another kernel "feature" like the problem I had
intially on my amiga which could be fixed by fixing the kernel.
Christian
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